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I know you stated that this thread has nothing to do with evolution but at least on our planet intelligence seems to be the result of natural selection. The smarter creatures survive. It seems to me that intelligence is just a progression from creatures that learn through natural selection to say go south in the winter to being able to do mathmatical calculations.
I don't think it is pre-existing in the universe but rather just another survival development (invention) that life comes up with much like vision or an appendix. Probably the reason our intelligence is so limited that we perceive little about our universe is because it has not been necessary for our survival.
Like Locobot pointed out, you write about intelligence like it is something almost mystical but to me it seems like something life developed to allow us to survive on this planet (at least for a short while). In the grand scheme of things I suspect that we are not very intelligent. I can imagine (hope) that life has evolved some very intelligent creatures somewhere and maybe here in a few million more years.
As I re-read your initial post I can see that I am probably not fully understanding your reason for this thread. But I'll go ahead and post since I took the time to write it, LOL.
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